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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mrs. Costello say Daisy's activities are causing ?

2. What is the symbolism of the Colosseum?

3. What disease is believed to be cause by night air?

4. What does Winterbourne agree that Daisy should do?

5. When have Italian men been calling for Daisy at her hotel?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Winterbourne's and Daisy's meetings taper off?

2. How does Winterbourne respond to Mrs. Walker's request that he stop seeing Daisy?

3. What does Mrs. Walker say Daisy has done that is unacceptable?

4. How does Henry James satirize Americans in the scene at Mrs. Walker's afternoon gathering?

5. What happens in the winter of the same year Winterbourne met Daisy?

6. How does Winterbourne begin to size up Giovanelli?

7. Describe the coincidental meeting between Winterbourne and Daisy.

8. Seeing Daisy with Giovanelli, how does he feel about her flirtation?

9. Describe Daisy's coquettish behavior that Winterbourne takes the wrong way.

10. To solve the problem of Daisy's going alone, how does Winterbourne provide an answer?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay on writing. Using Henry James as an example, discuss your thoughts on the contribution writers have made toward civilization. Speculate in your essay what the world would be like without the great writing down through the ages.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay expressing your opinion as to whether double standards between the sexes still exist. In your essay discuss such things as unwed mothers, unequal pay for equal work, and excluding women from certain male sports.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay expressing your ideas about judging books by their covers. Daisy Miller suffers from being judged unfairly by prudes and snobs. Express you opinion about similar things happening today.

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